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US Air Force Space Surveillance Satellite Bumps NASA’s long awaited Orion Launch to Dec. 2014
Delta 4 Heavy rocket and super secret US spy satellite roar off Pad 37 on June 29, 2012 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The urgent need by the US Air Force to launch a pair of previously classified Space Situational Awareness satellites into Earth orbit this year on an accelerated schedule has bumped the inaugural blastoff of NASA’s highly anticipated Orion pathfinder manned capsule from September to December 2014.
It’s a simple case of US national security taking a higher priority over the launch of NASA’s long awaited unmanned Orion test flight on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission.
The EFT-1 flight is NASA’s first concrete step towards sending human crews on Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) missions since the finale of the Apollo moon landing era in December 1972. (…)
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Post tags: Apollo Moon landings, cape canaveral, EFT-1, GSSAP, kennedy space center, Orion, Orion EFT-1, US Air force
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/110450/us-air-force-space-surveillance-satellite-bumps-nasas-long-awaited-orion-launch-to-dec-2014/
